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so one stereophile guy prefers it, i'll give you that. but who's to know which pads he was using with each headphone, as i am a fan of stating the bowl pad always sucks, even on the hp-1000.
i generally speak with zanth daily, and although he does prefer the rs-1 for electronica, i have on numerous occasions seen him post that the hp-1 is his favorite dynamic headphone overall. plus, you must realize he's a law major and those people can never be trusted.
i've never heard the mccormick, but i have read it lacks bass. the hp-1000 shows all defeats of any amp or source in its signal path, while another headphone with a not-as-flat response can sound "better" because the headphone compensates for the bass. could this have something to do with the results of a review?
nowhere on that page does alexnader derevin state when he was able to hear the grado hp-2, and meier's newest and most powerful amps have only been around for a few months. he might've heard them years ago on an ha-1 or an ra-1 for all we know.
although i subscribe and enjoy audio magazines, i have a tough time taking their word without skepticism. also it is a generally known fact that the older a person gets the more rolled off their hearing gets and i wouldn't be suprised if i enjoyed a brighter headphone later in life than an almost completely neutral one.
i have owned both rs-1 and hp-1 and listened to them side by side for months at a time, which not many reviewers or other head-fiers have had the option of doing. during this time i also got to hear them both with numerous amplifiers in the $750-$1000 range: rkv, sugden headmaster, melos, microzotl, cary 300sei, and headroom max. i feel that the hp-1000 is superior to the rs-1 and i probably always will. the fact that somebody disagrees with my opinion isn't really new to me, but i find it upsetting that it's all the "wrong" people who do which will keep this great headphone from the rest of the world.
| Originally posted by shivohum Well first off Corey Greenberg *has* heard the SHA-1/HP-1 (actually HP-2) combo and really liked it. But evidently these experiences didn't stop him from later thinking the RS-1 to be a "much, much better sounding pair of headphones." And how about Zanth, who says "The RS-1/RA-1 combo in many ways...out performs my Melos/HP-1 combo." Plus, you're ignoring the people who weren't using RA-1/HPA-1s. Corey Greenberg used a McCormack headphone drive in the review I cited. Is that junk too? Alexander Derevin undoubtedly has access to the best Meier-Audio amps, and I don't think they change his mind. And though two of the reviews I put up were links to gradolabs, they were just reprints from other magazines, namely Stereophile and The Absolute Sound. Of course Grado Labs only picked favorable reviews to put on its site, but that doesn't make those reviews biased. |
so one stereophile guy prefers it, i'll give you that. but who's to know which pads he was using with each headphone, as i am a fan of stating the bowl pad always sucks, even on the hp-1000.
i generally speak with zanth daily, and although he does prefer the rs-1 for electronica, i have on numerous occasions seen him post that the hp-1 is his favorite dynamic headphone overall. plus, you must realize he's a law major and those people can never be trusted.
i've never heard the mccormick, but i have read it lacks bass. the hp-1000 shows all defeats of any amp or source in its signal path, while another headphone with a not-as-flat response can sound "better" because the headphone compensates for the bass. could this have something to do with the results of a review?
nowhere on that page does alexnader derevin state when he was able to hear the grado hp-2, and meier's newest and most powerful amps have only been around for a few months. he might've heard them years ago on an ha-1 or an ra-1 for all we know.
although i subscribe and enjoy audio magazines, i have a tough time taking their word without skepticism. also it is a generally known fact that the older a person gets the more rolled off their hearing gets and i wouldn't be suprised if i enjoyed a brighter headphone later in life than an almost completely neutral one.
i have owned both rs-1 and hp-1 and listened to them side by side for months at a time, which not many reviewers or other head-fiers have had the option of doing. during this time i also got to hear them both with numerous amplifiers in the $750-$1000 range: rkv, sugden headmaster, melos, microzotl, cary 300sei, and headroom max. i feel that the hp-1000 is superior to the rs-1 and i probably always will. the fact that somebody disagrees with my opinion isn't really new to me, but i find it upsetting that it's all the "wrong" people who do which will keep this great headphone from the rest of the world.
